OK I am lost. I came in this morning and my website was totally down. I run drupal 6.x and it says it has been set to offline mode. When I try to go to MYSQL through PHPMYADMIN which I normally do it says "phpMyAdmin tried to connect to the MySQL server, and the server rejected the connection. You should check the host, username and password in your configuration and make sure that they correspond to the information given by the administrator of the MySQL server."

I have not changed or touched anything. my settings and config files are all the same and they were set with passwords. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The error messages are telling you someone is trying to access a secure section of your server to run a script which does not exist in your version of XAMPP.

Take a look in the C:\xampp\webdav folder and you should only see 2 files:index.htmlwebdav.txtIf there are more than that then you have been compromised and you need to correct the problem.See the link in my signature for some info and solutions.This is a well know entry point for script kiddies to turn your server into a zombie.

Until the malware and a possible webdav exploit is cleaned up it may be futile to try and do anything with your XAMPP installation.

Can you remember how you set the MySQL\phpMyAdmin root password in the first place?

Can you access phpMyAdmin using just username root with no password?

Do you see a screen with a place to put your root username and password?

In C:\xampp\phpmyadmin folder is a file config.inc.php and if you drag that file into an open text/code editor like notpad++ or notepad the does this line look like this

Please let me know when you have cleaned up the malware and possibly the webdav folder then we can proceed to sort out any other issues.

BTW this is the full error message from your web site when I tried to access it

Site off-line

The site is currently not available due to technical problems. Please try again later. Thank you for your understanding.

If you are the maintainer of this site, please check your database settings in the settings.php file and ensure that your hosting provider's database server is running. For more help, see the handbook, or contact your hosting provider.

The server is clear of malware. found 15. scans come back clean now. Webdav only has the two files. I set up phpmyadmin using the config file. All the config files for phpmyadmin and the drupal config.php files match a previous backup. I changed the auth to cookie and got the login screen. I tried the root and the password I have documented and root with no password. Neither worked. It is like someone logged in and changed the password. I have seen some posts using a script from the windows command line to force the password to change for phpmyadmin but they dont work. I am stumped. Any other thoughts. I really appreciate your help.